History: Recent submissions
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Ill-conceived History: An Analysis of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pill
Published 2012-01-01The fiftieth anniversary of the pill was an international commemorative event celebrated in 2010, and this thesis is an analysis of the use of history within this anniversary literature. Within the fiftieth anniversary, ...Open AccessThesis -
Making and breaking order via clothing Clothing regulation, cross-dressing, and the ordering mentality in later medieval and early modern England
Published 2012-11-01Following the events which disrupted social stability in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, individuals from a variety of social contexts demonstrated a particular necessity to see order visibly displayed in society. ...Open AccessThesis -
“Petticoat Government”: The Eaton Affair and Jacksonian Political Cultures
Published 2012-11-01Though typically trivialised by historians, the Eaton Affair preoccupied Andrew Jackson throughout his first presidency and lived on in nineteenth-century popular memory. This thesis sets aside dismissive, partisan and ...Open AccessThesis -
'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War
Published 2012-11-01Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve ...Open AccessThesis -
‘An Atmosphere of Uncertainty’ The Struggle Over Mormon Polygamy in 1850s Utah
Published 2012-11-01Historians have typically interpreted Mormon polygamy in nineteenth-century America through the lens of religious doctrine. This study takes a cultural approach and examines polygamous practice during its formative period ...Open AccessThesis